Clear bottle with silver foil wrapping (red and gold trim) around the cap and neck. Label tells me that it's "The Official State Beer of China". Per the back label, the "FINEST INGREDIENTS" include "BARLEY, GRAIN & HOPS". So does barley count as a grain? ;-b

Taste: The taste is lighter than I expected from the scent. Pilsner malt flavor with almost no hop bitterness. Adjuncts are present and contribute to the light flavor. The taste could easily pass for an American Macro Lager. The finish is very "wet" and clean.

Mouthfeel: Very light and watery. No fizz at all.

Drinkability: Not much in the way of flavor, but I can see this as a refreshing summer beer to drink while grilling with its watery feel and clean finish. (Just keep it out of the sun)

Overall: This is a clean and "watery" beer. I can't see it offending anybody at all, unless of course they are expecting some flavor.

It's a fizzy pale yellow beer, the Chinese version of any lame macro we have here in the U.S. or anywhere else. Barely any head forms, a sparse foam, with very little but at least noticeable spotting deposited in like manner.
It doesn't smell as bad as one might expect. There are actual detectable hops, maybe grass but essentially floral, with a certain tartness common, a lemony twang, and a bit of malts in a somewhat dry form.
The taste comes off a bit cloying, though, and very grainy. Fortunately, the tartness and crackery dry malts serve to ease that a little. It's a bit vegetal. Floral hops still come through, just barely, though an almost skunky sulfuric note adds its own little assault.
The feel is a little grainy and not particularly clean, though it does have a certain smoothness to it and is refreshingly crisp.

This stuff poured clear with no head what so ever. There's a bit of rice in both the smell and the taste. It goes down easy and takes care of thirst, but that's where my compliments stop. There's too much rice and off grain flavors in there.

The label says that this is the official state beer of China. I think it should stay there.

Half-litre can - "No. 1 Beer from China", and "Using natural mineral water", it proclaims. 'Enjoyed' at the local Mongolian grill joint.

This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow hue, with three fingers of foamy, silken soapy white head, which leaves some agreeable layered fuzzy cloud lace around the glass as it rather hastily recedes.

It smells of very tame white adjunct grains - cheap rice, mostly, and some skunky (surprisingly, for some reason) earthy, leafy hops. The taste is sweet grainy rice malt, a bit of stale lemon citrus, and mildly skanky, grassy, weedy hops. The secret police must be working hard to explain this one. Or not.

The carbonation is averagely perky, the body medium-light in weight, rather generically 'smooth', and just somewhat bordering on cloying, given the inherent rice attributes. It finishes clean, in a Yellow River sort of way, and a bit-off dry, owing again to that perception of sticky cooked rice.

Another pretty rough, gritty Chinese lager, which sort of encapsulates everything. Grainy, and skunky in an industrial effluent runoff manner, with a slight oiliness, and hints of rubbing alcohol in place of any basic ABV warmth puts this still mid-table on the small list of beers that I've yet sampled from this particular People's Republic.

A crispy, herbal bite with garden veggies musty, yeastie backdrop and a sweet, bready malt finish. all very standard. Nothing offensive or "off" but it's watery in the feel after a short period of time as well.

Nice clear bottle covered in silver foil. I served this in a big ole' tulip glass....why? I don't know.

A - Lemon gold with a short-lived fizzy head that fizzles to a fizzy haze in about two seconds. Some soapy lace sticks to the glass, but only sporadically.

S - Sweet apple cider aroma on top of a basic macro lager scent. I swear to God this smells like cider! Gentle apple and blossom aromas with the faintest touch of vinegar.

T - Surprisingly malty and extremely sweet with a lot of apple notes. Again, some vinegar is coming through too. This is way better than I thought it would be! Makes me think of a big ass 40oz of cheapo malt liquor with a bottle of cider poured into it.

M - Full bodied in the way that malt liquor is full bodied. Very grainy and solid.

D - I like this a lot...this is by far the best macro lager that I've ever had! Just outstanding for the style.

Clear bottle (but not skunked? Maybe they're using pre-isomerized hops like Miller). Clear golden body. Short head of bright white drops readily. Minor lacing. Sweet malt greets you in the nose along with some subtle yeasty fruitiness (apples, pear). Body is medium/light and it's crisp in the mouth. The flavor offers malt with obvious adjunct and a herbal (generic) hop background. There's just barely enough bitterness to balance it. It finishes with the malt lingering stickly as the hops fade and it becomes slightly acidic. Very basic and similar to American versions. Well done technically, but not particularly well-balanced.

The YanJing Beer is typical chinese knock-off of an american adjunct beer. Pours clear yellow with big carbonation that continues to fuel a dissapating head. The smell once you get past the skunk is grain and malt. The taste is bad with grain, malt, and slight hop. Mouthfeel is typical of most adjuct beers...carbonation light body. Overall it is a crappy beer....but still drinkable.

Poured from a 600ml. green bottle into a pint glass. Pours a light straw with a thin and fleeting whitish head.

Nose is grainy and a bit reaching. Not a lot going on beyond some lightly sweet barley notes. Touch of noble hops reveal themselves along with some adjuncts as the carbonation settles out, eventually yielding enough of a hop presence to keep things flowing.

Flavor is middle of the road, neither endearing nor deterring, just kind of there. Lightly sweet and viscous in a creamy sense, but reaching and a bit of a burden. Decent carbonation level helps things along a bit.

Poured from a clear into a weizen glass.Has a golden color with 1/2 inch head. Mild, malty aroma. Taste is crisp and refreshing but not very flavorfull. Light but pleasent in the mouth. Very drinkable, especially in warm weather. Overall a slightly above average beer.